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chevrolet cruze

Chevy Cruze Gets Full Detail Reveal Before Paris Unveil

GM just dropped high resolution images of the upcoming Chevy Cruze small four-door on us in advance of its Paris Motor Show unveil later this year. We must say that at first glance, we're quite impressed. The new car gets a striking design which mixes smooth planes and sharp lines for a surprisingly handsome design. Oddly, the tail lights on the Cruze mimic the camouflage-ensconced headlights on the upcoming Chevy Equinox while also receiving the new bold front end from the Chevy Malibu. If this is the direction GM's small cars are going, we've gotta say, our interest is piqued. But that's just the design. We're also told the new Chevy Cruze will get three engines when it launches in Europe in March of 2009; a 16-valve, 1.6-liter (112 hp) and 1.8-liter (140 hp) gasoline engine, plus a new 2.0-liter turbo diesel (150 HP). All will be mated to either a five-speed manual or a class-leading six-speed automatic transmission. No official word yet on fuel economy — but we've been told in the past we should expect somewhere near 45 MPG. We like. Hit the jump for the full press release.

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8:16 AM on Thu Aug 21 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
182 views, 18 comments

Latest by DoggieDaddy: @Ray Wert: No you don't ;) more »

2011 chevy beat

2011 Chevy Beat Exposes Its Interior, Still Concealing US Plans

The fate of the Chevy Beat is still in limbo for US markets, but as we see here, that isn't stopping the ongoing development of the latest GM minicar. The Beat gets a buddy for some hot weather testing and we get a look at the interior for the first time. For a subcompact, it's hard to be surprised by the spartan accommodations and the long-handled shifter, but we do like the floating gauge pod mounted directly to what appears to be a tilting steering column. Coupled with a high seating arrangement and supposedly true-to-concept styling, the Beat is shaping up to be more than your average econo-beater.

12:40 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,310 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: So they can easily build them with right hand or left hand steering.@Nayrlladnar: more »

2012 Corvette

2012 Corvette Gets The Full Speculation Treatment From PopMech

Is the 2009 Corvette ZR1 really the end of an era? Popular Mechanics doesn't think so. They're already speculating on what might be in store for the 2012 Corvette "C7", and they see a future that includes higher performance and better fuel economy. More »

10:40 AM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Mark Arnold
1,538 views, 14 comments

Latest by Mr.Fresco: As long as the V6 gets about 500 horsepower from the V6 like the GT-R, and the Z06 gets maybe more »

fuel economy

Automatics Closing Fuel Economy Gap On Manuals; Engines, Electronics Lending A Hand

In a stringer piece for the Detroit News, Rex Roy makes the observation that automatic transmissions are finally beginning to catch up to stick shifts in fuel economy. While we say "it's about damn time," considering automatics make up more than 90% of the US new vehicle market, we simultaneously lament that same fact. Also, we think photog-cum-journo Roy misses out on an important component of the improvement: The interface between engine and transmission and the technologies that make the entire powertrain system more efficient. Join us after the jump for a look at why it's not just the two extra gears in your slushbox doing all the work. More »

10:20 AM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Andrew Stoy
1,255 views, 29 comments

Latest by zeet: @econobiker: Oh? My high school girlfriend managed to drive a 1966 VW Type 1 through the front of the store more »

jalopnik reviews

2009 Corvette ZR1: First Drive

The 2009 Corvette ZR1 is the best car ever made. It redefines what performance cars are capable of, not by its numbers (the 0-to-60 in 3.3 seconds and a 205 MPH top speed figures are no longer noteworthy north of $100,000), but by how it makes those numbers so accessible. Simply put, the ZR1's most remarkable achievement is how easy and unintimidating the chassis makes exploiting the car's 638 HP. The only problem is I'm not good enough a driver to fully do so.

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Feature

10:30 PM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Wes Siler
16,090 views, 167 comments

Latest by AlexCConley: @Andrewpetty: I think the term your looking for is HDR.I don't even know how to produce an HDR image. Its kind of more »

warranties

GM Offering 12-Month, 12,000-Mile Bumper-To-Bumper Warranty On Certified Used Cars

General Motors is offering a transferable bumper-to-bumper warranty with zero deductible on all of the company's 60,000+ Certified Used Vehicles for one year or 12,000 miles, on top of their 100,000, five-year limited powertrain warranty. This offer is valid for anyone looking to get a Chevy, GMC, Buick, Saturn or Pontiac. The program doesn't extend to Hummer, Cadillac or Saab, each of whom offer a comprehensive used-car warranty program that is almost better than the new Saab warranty. Sounds like you've finally got an excuse to pick up that used GTO you've had your eye on. Press release below the jump. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,395 views, 23 comments

Latest by hoontastic: The 05/06 GTO Rocks sooo hard. If I had not tripped over the Gumball 3000 79 SE Trans Am "Bandit" more »

general motors

Detroit News Lists Best From GM's First 100 Years

In honor of GM's 100th birthday, Scott Burgess from The Detroit News put together a list of the most important and most impressive vehicles from the General's first century. The list includes some obvious examples, like the 1953 Corvette, and a couple of standouts, like the 1991 Saturn SL1. His favorite from this decade is the Cadillac CTS, which is hard to argue with. We've got a condensed version of the list below and want to know if you agree. Additionally, we're curious what you think are the worst GM vehicles from these first ten decades. Chime in after the jump. More »

1:00 PM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,736 views, 72 comments

Latest by n/a: @FuzzyPlushroom: For the 80s, I'd pick the 1988 Silverado. more »

detroit auto show

GM To Axe Detroit Auto Show Style Event, We Lose Chance To Schmooze Models

The recent belt tightening at GM kicked off last month with massive cuts to costs attributed to salaries (that means people losing jobs). Then GM started to make cuts to its non-car promotions with a slash of the Nascar budget. That line item's getting another whack as we've been told today the GM "Style" event has now slipped the mortal marketing coil. More »

10:20 AM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
968 views, 16 comments

Latest by om nom de plume: @Mad_Science: HEAR HEAR!!!!!Google StreetView assisted post, FTW!!! more »

la auto show

Cadillac CTS Coupe To Bow At LA Auto Show

Following a teaser preview at Pebble Beach this past weekend, GM announced the Cadillac CTS Coupe would finally flaunt its doorless flanks for the public at this November's 2008 LA Auto Show. Reports, as well as spy photos and official pres shots we've already seen, indicate the coupe will arrive nearly unchanged from the concept that first bowed at this year's Detroit Auto Show, featuring CTS sedan styling forward of the A-pillar but unique, more-aggressive sheetmetal from that point back. With a center-exit exhaust and a steeply raked rear window, the CTS Coupe is going to be a whole new interpretation of Caddy's design language, and we can't wait to see it at the show.

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9:20 AM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Andrew Stoy
713 views, 10 comments

Latest by DiscoQuinn: I'll take one with a rear transaxle, 2 seats, no radio, and hand crank windows. Love the look, hate the more »

industry news

GM "Employee Pricing For Everyone" Starts Wednesday

We don't have full details on the promotion yet, but starting Wednesday, it'll be a good time to head over to any GM showroom: The automaker's gone ahead and doubled down with employee pricing for everyone yet again. The new sale will include all eight brands and run from Wednesday, August 20 through September 2. Presumably, there will be the usual exclusions, but expect anything with any significant inventory on the ground to be in the mix, since the General is trying to clear lots for 2009 vehicles. [Automotive News; Sub. Req.]

5:00 PM on Mon Aug 18 2008
By Andrew Stoy
1,707 views, 21 comments

Latest by zeet: @bjones2004: I have to echo what @FuzzyPlushroom said: A kid? You must drive a 2-seater, then? more »

2011 chevy volt

Chevy Volt Evangelist Gets 33,000 Handraisers On Unofficial List

Even before he saw today's new Chevy Volt pictures, New York neurologist Lyle Dennis liked the idea of the 2011 Chevy Volt. In fact, he liked it enough to start GM-volt.com more than a year ago, in the process collecting the names of more than 33,000 prospective buyers for the Chevy electric car. The greatest interest comes from California, Texas, Florida and Michigan — no surprise there. What is surprising is that General Motors has apparently been watching Dennis' activities closely, even meeting with him and a handful of other Volt enthusiasts at the New York Auto Show this year. So what's the good doctor's motivation in all this? More »

2:20 PM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Andrew Stoy
1,163 views, 17 comments

Latest by Naturally Exasperated?: Evangelist, eh? Before long, we'll see Chevy Volt atehists flaming the website and spewing irrational hatred all over the place. more »

pontiac g8 st

NameG8 Continues: Pontiac G8 ST Press Photos Show Photoshop Fun

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question of the day

What, If Anything, Will Take Down The Prius?

The Toyota Prius has remained king of the hybrid hill for the last few years, due to there being no other real alternatives. But those days will probably be over soon, with other automakers looking for a way to steal away Prius sales. Which automaker, if any, do you think will take the marketing crown of eco-automaker from the world's super number one best awesome automaker from the land of the rising sun? More »

11:40 AM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,054 views, 78 comments

Latest by harrycase: vw golf diesel-hybrid... has to be more »

chevy volt

GM Reveals Two New Production Shots Of The Chevy Volt, 50 Prototypes On Road By End of Year

GM's just sent us two new photos of the production version of the 2011 Chevy Volt. While the first of the two shots doesn't show much more than what we saw when ABC News lifted the skirt last weekend, the second one shows us the big bowtie on the rear end of the new gasoline-electric sled from GM's American Revolution. Check out the high-resolution shots in the gallery below. We're also being told GM will have 50 prototypes running around on the highways and byways of Metro Detroit doing testing by the end of the year. Hmm, maybe this whole Volt thing's actually going to happen. Update: We just got our hands on some images of the ongoing work at the Warren Tech Center at on the clay model and chassis of the Volt.

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10:28 AM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
6,443 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: @toyotaboy: "My only hope is that they're able to market this for under $30k, otherwise this thing is going to more »

industry news

Russian "Undesirable" Oleg Deripaska Makes Play For Hummer

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, owner of Moscow-based Russian Machines, is in the hunt for the Hummer brand, according to Russian business magazine Vedomosti. Should Deripaska end up the high bidder, GM is going to have to take the paperwork to him: He's been barred by the US State Department from entering the country due to his alleged ties to organized crime and possible false statements made to the FBI, and he's been accused by business associates of extortion, kidnapping, and "unsavory business practices." We know: On the surface, Deripaska sounds like the perfect suitor for Hummer, but some statements made by one of his associates have us a little concerned. More »

9:20 AM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Andrew Stoy
2,044 views, 32 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: Wow try to get warranty work from a guy like him, it's not gonna be easy. more »

pontiac g8 st

Pontiac G8 ST Officially Named... Pontiac G8 ST, Tens Of Chevy Fans Will Now Sleep Easy

It's official — despite Jalopnik and over 80,000 arrowhead fan boys best efforts, Pontiac's decided to officially name the Pontiac G8 Sport Truck the unimaginative name of "Pontiac G8 ST." Frankly, we were as disappointed as you are. So we did what all fan boys of what could have been the new "El Camino" do when they're disappointed — we broke open a case of PBR. After a few beers we decided to get fellow El Camino fan boy Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com to help us set up a conference call with Pontiac marketing director Craig Bierley. Our purpose was to get to the bottom of how a process that seemed to encourage the type of fan movements like our "Vote El Camino" campaign would seemingly result in Pontiac choosing the original name of the vehicle. Interestingly, when we asked the question — Bierley told us Pontiac "didn't really have ST as the name when we engaged in the process, we were just calling it a sport truck." But, if you look at the pictures we originally took of the car in our exclusive first look, it had the "ST" letters. Go ahead, take a look at the liftgate in the picture up top as well as in this original picture of the "Sport Truck." We'll have more on the "NameG8" story tomorrow, but for the moment hit the jump for the press release. We're going to go and finish up the rest of this case of PBR. More »

Feature

12:01 AM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
10,689 views, 71 comments

Latest by n/a: @: It was called the "Crewman", but they're not making one in this model - it ceased production in December more »

industry news

GM Cracking Down On Employee Health Care Abuses

The Wall Street Journal today reports that General Motors is beginning a comprehensive health care plan audit in an effort to trim waste and fraud among hourly employees. The company spends nearly $5 billion per year on health care, a number that experts say could be cut by as much as 5% simply by removing ineligible dependents from employee plans. Like whom? Divorced spouses, girlfriends and grown children, for example. Employees have until August 20 to voluntarily remove ineligible dependents, so heads-up guys: Just 'cause they live in your trailer doesn't mean they can get their Lamasil on the General's tab. [WSJ, Sub. Req.; Photo Credit: Cleveland Free Clinic]

10:30 AM on Wed Aug 13 2008
By Andrew Stoy
697 views, 16 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: They could make some of it back by having a network of approved doctors if they don't already. What this more »

industry news

Hybrid Owners More Brand Loyal Than Other Buyers, We Make Zero Smug Jokes

An industry group we've never heard of called "Experian Automotive" is reporting this morning nearly half of hybrid vehicle owners will buy a vehicle of the same brand when they buy another one, making them some of the most loyal customers in the industry. Of course, they may not be buying a hybrid again because they're apparently not the most segment-loyal. Who is? You guessed it, pickup truck owners. The specifics, and why this could be good for GM and Ford below the jump. More »

8:45 AM on Tue Aug 12 2008
By Andrew Stoy
606 views, 12 comments

Latest by n/a: Experian Automotive knows a heck of a lot about the industry. Thier "AutoCheck" vehicle history report product saved me from more »

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